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Windows 7: Autorun on USB drives

It appears that Microsoft has disabled the Autorun feature for USB devices in Windows 7. If you create an appropriate Autorun.inf file on your USB drive, Vista (and XP?) will happily run the program it points to when you plug the device in, but in Windows 7 that is no longer the case. I've read a few news articles explaining that this is by design, out of security concerns.

While I understand and even agree with the reasoning, I was wondering whether there was a way (perhaps in the Group Policy editor, or some Registry hack) to override or bypass this?

I have just created a nice autorun feature to enable me to mount a TrueCrypt-encrypted container on my USB stick, but that no longer works in Win7. (Can't use BitLocker as I still need uncrypted access to the root of the drive in order for BitLocker to allow Win7 to start on my fully encrypted C:-drive).

I have sort of worked my way around it with a solution similar to yours, but I still have to invoke it "manually". In my case I created a VB script and a command file to enable a clean start, both placed on the unencrypted part of the USB stick.

This combination ensures that no black command window pops up while opening TrueCrypt. The reason why I didn't use shortcuts is that if you use the USB stick on different computers (with different operating systems) you can't guarantee that the USB drive has the same drive letter (like the G: in your solution) and you'll have to create a shortcut on every PC.

In addition to the above I still have my "autorun.inf" file on the USB stick that will fire TrueCrypt automatically when plugged into computers running XP or Vista:

Now are you guys accessing a program (like U3) off of the USB? Or just trying to do basic copying files to and fro. If autoplay isn't working for you (my PNY 4GB autoplays just fine) than use the Windows 7 partitioner to make the drive active (you may have to actually partition the USB for that)...it autoplayed for me after that

There is no way around it... If there was, Viruses would start using it. But you could program something that when it notices a USB drive it runs your command for you automatically... or it runs the autorun.inf for all connected drives (I wouldn't recommend this, it would present the same issue for why they disabled it in the first place)

I searched on google and there is no way to make it work Anyway i have multiboot and now i`m using my Vista Ultimate again . Hope the guys from TrueCrypt will do something until Microsoft release the final version of Win7 .

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